Presidential debates set
November 19th, 2007 – 5:02 PM by Dennis J. McGrathMark your 2008 calendars for Sept. 26, Oct. 7 and Oct. 15.
Those are the dates the Commission on Presidential Debates has selected for next year’s presidential debates. Among the new rules: the candidates will engage in direct exchanges with each other.
Here are the details:
First presidential debate:
Friday, September 26
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Debate focus: Domestic issues
Second presidential debate:
Tuesday, October 7
Belmont University, Nashville, TN
Debate focus: Town hall style, with issues raised by members of the audience and via the Internet.
Third presidential debate:
Wednesday, October 15
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
Debate focus: Foreign issues
In addition the vice presidential debate will be:
Thursday, October 2
Washington University in St. Louis, MO
All debates will be 90 minutes long, beginning at 8 p.m. (Central), and each will have a single moderator.
The first and third presidential debates and the veep debate “will be divided into 8 ten-minute issue segments; the moderator will introduce each segment with an issue on which each candidate will comment, after which the moderator will facilitate further discussion of the issue, including direct exchange between the candidates, for the balance of that segment,” the commission said.
You can read the commission’s full announcement here.
2 Responses to "Presidential debates set"
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